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But in physics I soon learned to scent out the paths that led to the depths, and to disregard everything else, all the many things that clutter up the mind, and divert it from the essential. The hitch in this was, of

But in physics I soon learned to scent out the paths that led to the depths, and to disregard everything else, all the many things that clutter up the mind, and divert it from the essential. The hitch in this was, of course, the fact that one had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examination, whether one liked it or not.

Albert Einstein
Science, Mind, Depth

The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression

Albert Einstein
Crush, Atheist, Lying
Albert Einstein (2015). “Relativity: The Special and the General Theory”, p.3, Princeton University Press

You accept the historical Jesus?

Albert Einstein
Jesus, Historical, Atheism
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.326, Princeton University Press

I must try, however, as best I can, although I am very conscious of the fact that our feelings and strivings are often contradictory and obscure and that they cannot be expressed in easy and simple formulas.

Albert Einstein
Simple, Feelings, Trying
Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.9, Open Road Media

My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature not by other feelings.

Albert Einstein
Memorable, Feelings, Secret

Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor.

Albert Einstein
Men, Gold, Fairy Tale
Albert Einstein (2002). “Dear Professor Einstein: Albert Einstein's letters to and from children”

The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics.

Albert Einstein
Creative, Principles, Mathematics
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.385, Princeton University Press

O, Youth: Do you know that yours is not the first generation to yearn for a life full of beauty and freedom?

Albert Einstein
Generations, Firsts, Youth
Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.30, Princeton University Press

The next world war will be fought with stones.

Albert Einstein
War, Stones, Next

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves. This ethical basis I call the ideal of the pigsty.

Albert Einstein
Ease, Ethical, Ends
Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.9, Broadway Books

You think you have troubles with mathematics . . . I assure you mine are still bigger.

Albert Einstein
Thinking, Trouble, Mathematics

Intelligence and genius

Albert Einstein
Inspirational, Thought Provoking, Genius

[Newton wrote to Halley ... that he would not give Hooke any credit] That, alas, is vanity. You find it in so many scientists. You know, it has always hurt me to think that Galileo did not acknowledge the work of Kepler.

Albert Einstein
Hurt, Science, Thinking

What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians?

Albert Einstein
Math, Battle, Frogs

No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself.

Albert Einstein
Business, Believe, Results

Toreador pants make your feet look big too

Albert Einstein
Feet, Looks, Pants

I am not a Jew in the sense that I would demand the preservation of the Jewish or any other nationality as an end in itself. Rather, I see Jewish nationality as a fact and I believe that every Jew must draw the consequences from this fact.

Albert Einstein
Believe, Demand, Facts
Albert Einstein (2002). “The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein: The Berlin years, writings, 1918-1921”

If the workers of this world, men and women, decide not to manufacture and transport ammunition, it would end war for all time. We must do that. Dedicate our lives to drying up the source of war; ammunition factories.

Albert Einstein
War, Men, World
Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.57, St. Martin's Press

This change in the conception of reality is the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton. Refering to James Clerk Maxwell's contributions to physics.

Albert Einstein
Reality, Profound, Clerks

On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it.

Albert Einstein
Hands, Perception, Impression
Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.152, Open Road Media

Marvellous, what ideas the young people have these days. But I don't believe a word of it.

Albert Einstein
Believe, Ideas, People

But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.

Albert Einstein
Math, Reason, Natural

To a student: Dear Miss - I have read about sixteen pages of your manuscript . . . I suffered exactly the same treatment at the hands of my teachers who disliked me for my independence and passed over me when they wanted assistants. . . . Keep your manuscript for your sons and daughters, in order that they may derive consolation from it and not give a damn for what their teachers tell them or think of them. . . . There is too much education altogether.

Albert Einstein
Daughter, Teacher, Son

Those people have seen 'something'. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know.

Albert Einstein
Astrology, People, Care

Only in mathematics and physics was I, through self-study, far beyond the school curriculum, and also with regard to philosophy as it was taught in the school curriculum.

Albert Einstein
Philosophy, School, Self
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.24, Princeton University Press

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